“At this very early stage of a pregnancy, however, the embryo is the size of a pomegranate seed and has only a primitive tube of cardiac cells that emit electric pulses and pump blood,” the piece states. The article claimed that Texas’ so-called Heartbeat Bill is based on a “singular premise disputed by many medical experts,” that is, that ultrasound can detect a fetal heartbeat at about six weeks pregnancy, at which point many women don’t even yet know that they’re pregnant.Ībortion advocates have taken issue with the early cutoff for abortion in the Lone Star State in part because they argue it doesn’t give women enough of a chance to abort their unborn babies, so the Times’ piece gives what’s likely a very welcome argument that six-week-old human embryos don’t even have heartbeats to begin with. Their hearts begin beating before any mother knows she’s pregnant and their body begins to develop very quickly, - well before abortions are routinely done to end their little lives,” LifeNews wrote in refutation of the Times’ piece, which was entitled Abortion Opponents Hear a ‘Heartbeat.’ Most Experts Hear Something Else. “For decades, the scientific world has known that unborn children are living human beings whose lives begin at conception. The New York Times published a story earlier this week arguing that the detectable fetal heartbeat that dictates restrictions on abortion in the state of Texas isn’t really a heartbeat, a claim which pro-life activists say is patently false.
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